12 April 2024 - Music, Community, and How We Become

Gender Identity Weekly

Today's episode features Mx. Crys/ta Song, a Speech Language Pathologist and vocalist who is also Board Co-Chair of Queer Oriented Radical Days of Summer (QORDS). Crys/ta and I talk about such topics as why the South should not be discounted as a political forum, how we cannot help but be part of humanity, and obscure William Makepeace Thackeray quotes.

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REFERENCES:

Follow Crys/ta Song on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mx.singasong/

QORDS website: https://qords.org/

Follow QORDS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Qords/

Follow QORDS on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qords_camp/

Transcend NYC Chorus: https://www.transcendsings.org/

“Braiding Sweetgrass:” https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass

Quote from “The Crow:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6sz0mgQL_A

• (00:00) - Opening credits
• (00:37) - Show opening
• (01:32) - Introducing Crys/ta Song
• (02:31) - The beauty in pure vocal sounds
• (06:11) - Applying sound to the human experience
• (09:52) - Genderless choir
• (12:23) - Music Theory for Cis/Het White Dudes
• (15:11) - Gendered Voice for Cis/Het White Dudes
• (20:59) - Healing through community connections
• (27:15) - Chosen family is different from the labels we adopt
• (31:07) - Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children
• (35:55) - Stay aloof or be in the human community?
• (43:12) - Why it's worth investing in the South
• (49:44) - Transformation during Queer Oriented Radical Days of Summer
• (57:10) - Can QORDS help youth with recalcitrant parents?
• (01:01:41) - Finding Crys/ta in the Universe
• (01:03:21) - Show closing
• (01:04:54) - Closing credits